Instead of rolling out a long-touted plan for pension reform, Governor Christie’s office released an action-packed movie trailer Tuesday as it promised a summer-long series of promotional events to highlight the state’s pension issues.

Christie calls the pension system a “crisis” again in the video but has said details on how he will fix things will not come until later this summer.

The movie was removed from Christie’s YouTube page shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday night. The governor’s office said Johnson requested that the video be taken down. The footage featuring Johnson was taken from the movie “The Rundown.” An edited version was reposted Wednesday.

Johnson’s publicist did not immediately respond to questions.

The online video comes after Christie used a series of town-hall-style events, a cable television interview and his budget address and State of the State speech this year to call for additional reforms.

Today the governor is scheduled to give the luncheon keynote address at CNBC and Institutional Investor’s Delivering Alpha Conference, which draws hedge-fund leaders, before heading to Iowa on Thursday to raise money in his role as chairman of the Republican Governors Association, a position that could help him lay the groundwork for a presidential bid in 2016.

Titled “No Pain, No Gain,” the video features explosions, dramatic narration and footage of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — who starred in a 2013 Paramount Pictures film titled “Pain & Gain.” Christie declares that there is a looming crisis. “There is no other way to fix a severe problem like this than with pain,” Christie says in a clip taken from a recent public event.

The lack of details of how Christie plans to address the issue isn’t a problem, said Ben Dworkin, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University.

“It’s a campaign to make New Jerseyans care about this issue and to see it from the governor’s perspective,” Dworkin said. “Just because they’re talking about the issue without the details doesn’t mean the details aren’t coming.”

The governor vetoed Democratic revenue bills, which would have increased taxes on corporations and income over $1 million to pay the state’s pension obligation.

Christie used his line-item veto authority to reduce the payment from $2.25 billion to $681 million in last fiscal year’s budget, which he has said would cover active employees in the system.

A recent Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll found that the majority of New Jersey voters believe the pension system is in trouble, but most believe the state needs to honor the promise it made to workers instead of reducing payouts.

Christie’s media team released the video and promoted it on social media ahead of a scheduled town-hall-style event in Long Branch, where he was set to discuss his agenda. A severe thunderstorm led to its postponement. The governor tweeted, “And for you trolls out there: We know, the book was better,” with a link to the budget he proposed in February and a link to the movie trailer. That budget, which included the scheduled $2.25 billion pension payment the state was set to make this fiscal year, is larger than the version Christie signed late last month.

Christie slashed the state’s planned contribution for the fiscal year that ended June 30 through an executive order, which prompted public employee unions to file suit. A Superior Court judge ruled that the state could cut the payment for the just-ended fiscal year because of revenue shortfalls so late in the budget cycle. But Judge Mary C. Jacobson hinted that she could side with the unions should Christie reduce the payment for the budget year that began July 1.

Democrats were quick to chastise the governor for the video Tuesday.

“Sadly, the governor’s bizarre Hollywood fantasy is not the action drama his team imagines, it’s a horror film that never seems to end,” John Currie, chairman of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, said in a statement.

Currie said it’s particularly offensive because it was produced by a Christie communications staff that received an average 23 percent pay hike this year, which The Record reported after suing to obtain personnel records.